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The backward problem of parabolic equations with the measurements on a discrete set

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Published/Copyright: December 19, 2019

Abstract

The backward problems of parabolic equations are of interest in the study of both mathematics and engineering. In this paper, we consider a backward problem for the one-dimensional heat conduction equation with the measurements on a discrete set. The uniqueness for recovering the initial value is proved by the analytic continuation method. We discretize this inverse problem by a finite element method to deduce a severely ill-conditioned linear system of algebra equations. In order to overcome the ill-posedness, we apply the discrete Tikhonov regularization with the generalized cross validation rule to obtain a stable numerical approximation to the initial value. Numerical results for three examples are provided to show the effect of the measurement data.

MSC 2010: 35R25; 65F22

Award Identifier / Grant number: 11771192

Award Identifier / Grant number: 11971121

Funding statement: The work described in this paper was supported by a China NSF grant (No.11771192, 11971121).

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Received: 2019-11-04
Accepted: 2019-11-22
Published Online: 2019-12-19
Published in Print: 2020-02-01

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